The Ponderosa: Continued ...

Death before Dhimmitude

Energy Independence

Above this race of men stands an immense and tutelary power, which takes upon itself alone to secure their gratifications and to watch over their fate. That power is absolute, minute, regular, provident, and mild. It would be like the authority of a parent if, like that authority, its object was to prepare men for manhood; but it seeks, on the contrary, to keep them in perpetual childhood: it is well content that the people should rejoice, provided they think of nothing but rejoicing. For their happiness such a government willingly labors, but it chooses to be the sole agent and the only arbiter of that happiness; it provides for their security, foresees and supplies their necessities, facilitates their pleasures, manages their principal concerns, directs their industry, regulates the descent of property, and subdivides their inheritances: what remains, but to spare them all the care of thinking and all the trouble of living?

--Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America

Friday, July 30, 2004

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(A)nd let's never misuse for political purposes the most precious document in American history, the Constitution of the United States.

We're guessing he's referring to the Federal Marriage Amendment. Regardless of the merits of the FMA, the amendment process cannot properly be labeled a "misuse" of anything. It's simply the process put in place to change the Constitution.

Contrast this to the Left's view of a "living" Constitution, wherein the document means everything and nothing depending on a Justice's whim. THAT is misuse.

The Ponderosa

Friday, July 30, 2004

Continued ...

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